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obtain new plants free from infection by any of these root-worms, 
best that they should be transplanted in spring, but there is a 
iin probability that even at that time they will contain the ego's 
naspis. To rid the new field of these, it will be necessary to 
7 Jfi e first runners to set, and then to destroy the recently 
ped stools from which they sprang, leaving the field stocked only 
new stools, formed since the plants were set out. 
c. By a black Snout-beetle. 
The Black Fruit-Weevil. 
(Otiorhynchus sulccitus, Boh.) 
Order Coleoptera. Family Otiorhynchid.e. 
is is a European insect, well and unfavorably known to the 
eners of England and the Continent, and destructive, both in 
arval and matured conditions, to a variety of horticultural pro- 
i. _ It is in the former state that it attacks the strawberry, 
iring the roots and penetrating the crown somewhat after the 
ods of the root-worms previously treated. 
hough it has not yet been observed in strawberry fields in 
ica, and has not in fact been reported as an injurious species 
is country, still it has been for some time established in the 
./rn States, having been imported from the old world many 
ago. It is proper, therefore, that such brief mention of it 
be made here as may serve to warn the fruit grower against 
I ice it has pioven in its native home to be one of the most 
mageable of the insect enemies of horticulture. 
e. larva is footless, like the crown-borer, and is described as 
wish white, with a brown head, and provided with brownish 
|. It is known to feed upon the roots of raspberries, straw- 
! is, and various garden plants, from midsummer until autumn, 
bernates in the larval stage and transforms in the following 
ig, emerging as a beetle in April or May. 
3 adult is oblong, brown-black, sub-opaque, the surface sparsely 
I coarsely punctured, and sparsely hairy. The thorax is sub- 
Irical, widest in front of the middle, not longer than wide, 
led with rounded, shining tubercles, each bearing a short hairl 
j fiytra are broadly striated, and the striae coarsely punctured, 
ntervals each with a row of shining, rounded tubercles, rather 
y placed, and with small patches of short, yellowish hair 
i darly distributed. The body beneath is black and shining, and 
sparsely hairy. . The length is thirty-four hundredths of an 
As the adult is wingless like the beetle of the crown-borer, 
lvasion. of a field may be easily guarded against by proper 
utions in transplanting. 
